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Acer Android Smartphone Ready to Ship This Week

Even though HTC got the clear head start on the Android thing, it seems that a lot of other companies are finally getting in on the Google smartphone action. We already know about the Motorola Droid, among others, but now we are getting our hands on the Acer A1 Liquid, the first Android phone from the Taiwanese company.

Most of us know Acer better for its notebooks and netbooks, but they have a small lineup of Windows Mobile handsets already. They’re not completely new to the smartphone game, so the move to Google Android was a natural one.

The Acer A1 Liquid was first unveiled last month, but they are saying that the touchscreen-equipped phone is ready for shipping this week. Seeing how today is Friday, I’m a little skeptical about the “this week” part of the announcement, but I suppose we can assume it means “really soon.”

For specs, you get that super fast 1GHz processor, a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display, 5-megapixel camera, aGPS, and 3.5mm headphone jack. Acer hopes to move up to a 6-7% smartphone market share in the next three to five years.

Source: Reuters

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Acer Launches Android Phone, Says Targets on Track

HELSINKI, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Acer Inc (2353.TW) started to sell its first mobile phone model running on Google’s (GOOG.O) Android software this week, and will introduce more Android handsets next year, the head of its phone unit said on Thursday.

The the world’s second-largest PC brand entered the cellphone market this year with 10 models, with all but the Android phone using Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Windows Mobile operating system. “Next year it will be much more balanced,” Aymar de Lencquesaing told Reuters in an interview.

“There is definitely momentum behind Android. The pace is faster than most would have anticipated one year ago,” he said, adding that the company had no plans to use other operating systems.

Android had 3.5 percent of the global smartphone market in the quarter ended September, compared with none 12 months earlier, while Microsoft saw its market share fall to 8.8 percent from 13.6 percent a year earlier, according to research firm Canalys.

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Acer Aspire D250 with Google Android starts making the rounds

Acer is set to release a new version of the Acer Aspire One D250 soon with both Windows 7 and Google Android loaded up. You can choose between the operating systems at launch. And Acer has been busy sending out demo units to a handful of tech news sites.  Here’s a short roundup of sites that have managed to get their hands on the Android enabled version of the laptop:

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Acer Kicks off New “Liquid” Series with Snapdragon Android Phone

There’s some big Android news coming out of the Acer camp today!  The first Android phone out of the gate with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor will belong to their new “Liquid” series of handsets.  With a High Definition, Wide-VGA capacitive touchscreen, a 5MP camera, and “no idle-time”, this ain’t your buddy’s G1 were talking about here.

Other fun Acer Liquid stuff gleaned from the press release:

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